New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
is Vow Just think Of It I! not one Of Us
Iunlb fools had thought Of that. You

4 see we was expecting to pc relleveu
from hour to hour, for we had tcle-s
4 graphed both ways, and the snow had
/ stopped by that time, and none Of us
had any notion it was going to be the
job it was to dig us out. Only the
young lady had the sense to remember
that it might take longer than we was
calculated on.
Says /, If we were kept here a
week. there won't be a shovel Of coal
left for any Of the fires, let alone the
engine.
| !" Then don't you think says she,
| in her soft voice, that it would be a
wise plan to get all the passengers to-
gether in one car, and keep a good fire
up there, aud let the other stoves 90
out? It's no matter if we are a. little
crowded, says she.
..Well, of course it was the only
thing to do, as we see ut once when it
was put into our heads. We took the
car the sick lady was in, SOS she'd not
| have to be disturbed, and we made up
| beds for the children, and somehow all
the passengers managed to pack in.
train hands and all 1t was tight
| squeeze, but that didn' t matter so much,
because the weather was so awfully
cold
That was the way come to see so
much of the young lady. I hadn't any
thing to keep me about the engine, so
kind of detailed myself off to wait on
her She was busy all day long doing
things for the rest. It's queer how
peoples characters come out at such
times. We got to know all about each
other. People stopped string and
ma aiming and being polite, and show
ed for just what they We're worth. The
selfish ones, and the shirks. and the
towards, and the mean cusses who want
ed to blame some one for sending the
weather-there want no use for any
of them to try to hide themselves any
more than it was for the other kind.
The women, as rule, bore it better
than the men. 1t comes natural. I
suppose, for woman to be- kind of si-
lent and pale and patient. when she's
suffering. But the young lady wasn't
that sort either. She was as bright as
button all along. You'd have sup
posed from her face that she was hav-
ing just the best kind OF time!
Il can see her now, standing before
the stove roasting jack-rabbits for the
others supper. Some of the gentle
men had revolvers. and when the snow
got crusted over, SOS they could walk
on it they used to shoot EN-. And we
We're glad enough of every one shot,
provisions We're so scanty- The last
two days them rabbits and snow
water melted in pail over the stove
4 was all we had to eat or drink
Il suppose there was nothing for
| you to do but wait" said Miss Vaughn
mo ma'am, there wasn't nothing at
all for me to do but help the young
lady now and then. She let me help
her more than the rest, used to think.
She'd come to me and say, sMr. Scott,
| oAAAo AHSCNAV 40 1ol ou Sui9u OlkC COlGuuCb-a
Of She never forgot any body-ex-
cept herself. Once she asked me to
hold the S elk little girl while she took
a sleep. It was mighty pretty always
to see her with them children They
never seemed to have enough OF her.
All OF them wanted that she should put
them to bed, and sing to them. and tell
them stories. Sometimes she'd have
all five swarming over her at once. [
used to watch them
'Well, how did it end?'' asked Miss
Vaughn, as the engineers voice, which
had gradually grown lower and more
I dreamy, came to a stop.
'.Eh9 Whata ohr' rouslng himself
"It ended when three locomotives and
relief train from Cheyenne broke
through to us OH the eighth morning
after we were blockaded. They brought
provisions and coal and we got on
first-rate after that. Did the sick Lady
die? No, ma am. She was living,
when last heard Of her, down to San
| ia Barbara. Two years ago that
! was"
/ "And what become Of your young
lady ?"
..She left at Sacramento. Her broth-
/ er or some one was down to meet her.
/ / saw him moment. He didn't look
i like her.
.''And you never saw her again? You
never heard her namep''
mo, ma 'am7 ] never did. y
The engineers voice sounded gruff
and husky as he said this. He show
eled in coal with needless energy.
..Are you a married man?" asked
! Miss Yanohn The question snlndnd